A Debian package would be wonderful. If you've already started on a man
page, that is great as well. I haven't written a man page in quite a
few years. I could probably add to it in the future.
There is one outstanding bug that I have since fixed (dealing with
merging and date ranges). If there is a concensus among the people on
the list, I would make a quick 0.1.5 release, and this could serve a
starting point for the .deb. Otherwise, we could just release a 0.1.4
.deb.
I would definitely like to put the .deb file on the website. (Is that
how it is done in Debian, or does everyone just apt-get it from a
mirror?)
- Don
P.S. - The merge/date problem is fixed in CVS, if anyone needs it before
the next release.
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Don Allingham
donaldallingham@...

I plan on creating a debian package of Gramps. Actually I am half way
done with it and thought I'd let you and everyone else on this list
know that it is coming, as well as do the honorable thing and ask
your blessing in creating it.
My wife uses this program alot and seems to like it very much. You've
probably gotten many emails from her about it (ShawnAnn Griffith).
Anyhow here is what I plan on doing.
I have noticed there is no manual page for gramps, since the debian
policy does not *require* one but it heavily suggests one I will
write a simple one for the purposes of the package. If you have
already started on one please let me know and I'll cease, or if you
wish for it to be a bit more expanded on information email me back
with the important details you would like included and I'll do my
best. Since I personally do not use this program I doubt my manual
page will contain much information, that's why I'm asking you.
The version I am packaging is your latest (v0.1.4) I should have this
package finished by tonight and was wondering if you would rather me
wait for a new release that might? be coming in the next few days. I
do notice that this one if failry recent though, but I'm not sure if
you are going to release a bug fix version tomorrow which would make
this package obsolete before it was upladed to the apt mirrors.
Once I am finished I will send you the official package *.deb if
you'd like to have it displayed on your project page at sourceforge.
Well, that's about it from me, don't want to bore you with all the
details. Please email me back and let me know if there is anyhting
you'd like to see included.
Brandon L. Griffith Give me liberty or give me something
<brandon@...> of equal or lesser value from your
<bgriffit@...> glossy 30 page catalog.

gramps 0.1.4 has been released. It can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps
First off, thanks to all those who have been contributing bug reports,
ideas, and code patches. This is what Open Source projects are
all about.
This is the first release to support internationalization. Thanks
to Bo Rosen, we now have a Swedish translation. Not everything is
fully translated yet (due to more changes needed in the code), but
we are well under way.
The latest developments include improved date handling. Date ranges
are supported. Partial dates are handled better. And if gramps
can't figure out your date, it no longer drops it, but stores it as
a text string (it will be displayed in quotes).
Several bugs in the GEDCOM file import have been fixed (in particular,
the importing of notes), and now UNICODE and UTF-8 encodings are
supported (in addition to ASCII and ANSEL encodings) when importing
GEDCOM files.
Report generation has been cleaned up. It should now be significantly
easier to add a new output filter. Currently, OpenOffice, AbiWord,
and HTML are supported. The HTML output now uses CSS Style Sheets to
improve the output appearence.
While not implemented yet, the new report generators will eventually
allow you to specify, save, and apply styles to your output documents.
You will be able to specify the color, paragraph alignment, font,
font-size, background color, etc. for the document. For example, you
will be able to tell the report generator that the title should be a
16pt, bold, sans-serif (Helvetica or Arial), blue font that is centered,
and the text of the document should be black, serif (Times or Times New
Roman), 12pt font. This style will be able to be applied to the
document, whether you are targeting HTML, OpenOffice, AbiWord, or any
other future platform. I hope to have this in place by the 0.2.0
release.
The .rpm file is now i386 (and compatible) specific. Due to strange
interaction between Python and Gnome/GTK/Glade, a C file had to be
added to support international language translation. If you are
compiling from source, you may need to make modifications to the
Makefile in the src directory to fix include paths. The current setup
is for RedHat 7.1 and Python 1.5.2. I have not had time to change
the configure script to dynamically detect this yet.
I have not tested gramps under Python 2.0 yet. The problem with the
XML parsing under 2.0 has been fixed (and Python 2.X is about 50%
faster than Python 1.5 for XML parsing), but I do not have a working
PyGNOME installation for Python 2.0 on my system. If someone could
check this out and get back to me, I would appreciate it.
Enjoy.
Version 0.1.4
* Implemented date ranges. Valid forms are "from <date> to <date>" and
"between <date> and <date>".
* Better support for partial dates. A question mark can optionally be
used for a placeholder for a year if the year is unknown. Illegal
date formats issue a warning upon an attempt to save the date.
* Start of internationalization (i18n) support. Had to include a single
C file to allow libglade to understand translations. This means that
binary releases are no longer going to be platform independant.
* Start of a generic output formatter for report generation. Currently
supports HTML, OpenOffice (625+), and AbiWord (0.7.13+). Allows
control of paragraph and font styles.
* Added into CVS on sourceforge
* Fixed quite a few bugs
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--
Don Allingham
dallingham@...

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